On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:00:54AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 21 2005, Johan Kullstam wrote: > > "John Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Thanks but the old clunker's motherboard is not expandable to 256M > > > :-( > > > > Star/Open-Office is not going to be pleasant. TeX, on the other hand, > > will run like a treat. > > Indeed. Let alone the typographical quality that you get with (La)TeX and > that you don't get with other systems (if LaTeX is properly used, of > course).
I think it's not easy to use LaTeX so it will generate ugly output. > I also don't use a desktop environment---I prefer to use a single window > manager instead, and the solution that I found closer to my needs is > fluxbox. I "saw the light" after experimenting with many window managers > (like windowmaker, blackbox, oroboros etc) and some desktop environments > (Gnome and KDE, mostly -- both inappropriate for a low resources machine). > > Fluxbox is small, functional, configurable, mostly useable with the > keyboard (if you configure it correctly) and *fast*. Highly recommended. But it's getting more and more eye-candy stuff. Transparent menus, little icons along with menu entries... And it's getting big. It was quite slow on my box, so I switched to openbox -- and I can say it's FAST! BTW, looks at their sizes: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M 2005-04-19 13:41 /usr/bin/fluxbox -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 200K 2005-02-21 19:59 /usr/bin/openbox I still do everything I used to do, without that extra 1Mb. I know the extra size doesn't necessarily mean it's slower, but it's more memory you'll be using, and if you're short on memory, it *will* slow down your system, no matter how good the code is. And fluxbox is very slow (at least it feels slow to me). I have 1.1 Mb RAM and I sometimes had to wait ten seconds or more just to open a menu. In the same environment, openbox opens menus instantly. J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]